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She teaches a class discussing the ways northern middle class women volunteered during civil war. She focuses on Louisa May Alcott. Chronicled in her book called hospital sketches. Its about an hour. All right. Well, welcome. To a class that will focus on women and volunteerism during the u. S. Civil war. You all read a primary source document written by a woman who participated in the civil war. Louisa may alcott. Who worked as a nurse. So were going to start off our class today by looking at hospital sketches. Which all of you should have available to you. And out ready to chat. About the source. So the big question that were posing and investigating today is is how did womens volunteerism shape the choices that they made during the civil war. Theres two questions. And then how did that volunteerism influence the out come or affect the out come of the civil war. Those are our over arching questions that were looking at today. ....
You all read a primary source document written by a woman who participated in the civil war. Louisa may alcott. Who worked as a nurse. So were going to start off our class today by looking at hospital sketches. Which all of you should have available to you. And out ready to chat. About the source. So the big question that were posing and investigating today is is how did womens volunteerism shape the choices that they made during the civil war. Theres two questions. And then how did that volunteerism influence the out come or affect the out come of the civil war. Those are our over arching questions that were looking at today. We start with Louisa May Alcott. And her hospital sketches. Which was published during the war. It was serialized and published. So americans who read the magazine that it was published in dould read about her experiences in a civil war era hospital. So lets start by id like to hear your thoughts about th ....